Bug#486629: apache2 refusing to restart

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

Hi Paul,

it seems if there is a large number of child processes, apache can 
take a long time to close all the listening sockets. If this is your 
problem, then apache should die some time after an unsuccessful 
restart. In this case, you could try to increase the wait time in the 
init script (there is a t=4 in there, try to increase it to 10 or 
however long it takes apache to die in your setup). Does this help? 
If yes, what wait time works for you?

Cheers,
Stefan